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A practical guide to dating a vintage Motobécane: telling the French bicycles from MBK and the modern imports, what the frame stamps may mean, and how the 1979 catalog, the tubing and the components date the bicycle.
Caminade made the Caminargent, an aluminum bicycle of the 1930s, and the handlebars, stems and gear hubs that went with it. This gallery gathers the advertisements, press clippings and catalogs that document the firm, among them the 1936 French catalog…
Mercier of Saint-Étienne advertised itself as the bicycle of champions, and the pictures at Ebykr bear the claim out: team photographs from the Pélissier and Magne years, Raymond Poulidor in the Mercier-Hutchinson jersey and catalog and advertising pages from the…
Peugeot made bicycles for longer than almost any other firm and advertised them in nearly every medium available. This gallery gathers the posters, brochures, catalog pages and magazine advertisements held at Ebykr, from a notice of about 1820 for the…
A practical guide to dating a vintage Bianchi: why its frame number cannot give you a year, and how the tubing, the transfers, the components and Bianchi's own catalogs from 1912 to the late 1980s can.
A practical guide to dating a vintage Schwinn: telling a Chicago-built Schwinn from a Paramount and an import, finding the frame number, reading it with the right table and confirming the year with the catalogs and the components.
Campagnolo says its founder invented the quick release after a snowbound race in 1927 and patented it in 1930. The record tells a richer story: a first patent filed in May 1933, the cam quick release in April 1943, a parallelogram derailleur he perfected rather than invented, magnesium wheels for Lamborghini, a signed account of his life that never mentions the snow and a 1981 conviction that English-language histories leave out.
A dated timeline of Campagnolo from Tullio Campagnolo's birth in Vicenza in 1901 to the minority investment of 2026: his first patent of May 1933, the cam quick release of 1943, the Cambio Corsa and the Paris-Roubaix, the Gran Sport, Record and Super Record, magnesium wheels for Lamborghini, C-Record, Syncro and Ergopower, with the Croce d'Aune story marked as the legend it is.
A practical guide to dating vintage Campagnolo parts from the firm's own catalogs of about 1951 to 1986: when each model came and went, the changes you can measure on the part and what the numbers, the patent words and the address on a catalog or a box can tell you.
Schwinn printed more paper than almost any American bicycle company and a great deal of it survives. This gallery gathers the catalog pages, dealer books and magazine advertisements that document the marque from a 1939 trade advertisement for racing components…
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